The Detroit Red Wings have dealt with more than their fair share of injuries this season and its forced them to lean heavily on some of their younger players earlier than they might have planned. Rookie Luke Glendening is one example of that as the 24-year-old center has played in 51 games with Detroit in his rookie campaign.

He’s held his own though and now he’s been rewarded as Detroit announced this morning that they have signed him to a three-year extension.

Glendening is a bottom-six forward and doesn’t do much offensively. However, he does have 78 hits and 32 blocked shots this season and can hold his own on the draw. He was never drafted, but he developed with the University of Michigan and spent the last two seasons in the Detroit Red Wings’ minor-league system.

This contract is a chance for the Grand Rapids, Michigan native to stick with his hometown team.

Minnesota Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has been the most difficult goalies to score against this season. Leave it to a high-level player like Leon Draisaitl to make it look this, well, “easy.”

Draisaitl scored his 13th goal of 2016-17 by capping this pretty give-and-go play with Benoit Pouliot. You can see the frustration from Dubnyk at the end of the tally, as if he was saying “How was I supposed to stop that?” (though probably with more colorful language).

Draisaitl came into Friday with five goals and three assists in his last five games, so he’s been almost unstoppable lately.